The Welsh lobby is running riot now Cardiff City have reached the FA Cup Final. Cardiff will represent England if they win - due to a very late rule change. For the first time in history, a Welsh "National" Anthem will be sung at the FA Cup final. All arranged very late on by huge political interference in sport.
Much nonsense is being offered in support of these decisions. There are references on websites to Rorke's Drift and "Men of Harlech", for example.
OK so we have all seen the "Zulu" film.
In reality, the battle took place in 1879 when the Regiment was actually the 2nd Warwickshires. It became the South Wales Borderers in 1881. There were some Welshmen there as the Regiment had most recently been stationed in Wales. Most of the soldiers, including most of the VCs, were not Welsh. "Men of Harlech" was not sung.
The film is entertaining but historically inaccurate. So leave it out, please, Welshmen! PS Play up Pompey! God save the Queen!

I think if you look hard enough at the composition of most regiments of the British army, no matter what their titles now, you'll find they were a mix of English Irish Scots and Welsh depending on where they were posted and recruited previously. It was in truth a British army and as an ex member I'm proud to say I'm British and served alongside Britons of all the constituent countries and never thought of them as anything but British. Even the Black Watch when stationed in Dhekelia in 1960 had a very large number of Gloucestershire men in their ranks.

Yeah - but in the 19th Century the British Army was 45% Irish in the ranks and 50%+ Anglo-Irish officers. If you look at any memorial for 19th Century campaign you will see a large number of Irish surnames no matter which regiment.

Yeah - but in the 19th Century the British Army was 45% Irish in the ranks and 50%+ Anglo-Irish officers. If you look at any memorial for 19th Century campaign you will see a large number of Irish surnames no matter which regiment.

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Because we were all British then! British together.

The Irish separatist movement has done no favours for the Irish or the rest of the British. There is more that unites us than divides us.

Come back to the fold, let us have a roving parliament that spends five years in London, five in Dublin, five in Cardiff and five in Edinburgh in turn. Let us revive the Commonwealth, denounce the princes and prelates of continental Europe and stand together, British one and all, prosperous, fair and strong!

Yeah - but in the 19th Century the British Army was 45% Irish in the ranks and 50%+ Anglo-Irish officers. If you look at any memorial for 19th Century campaign you will see a large number of Irish surnames no matter which regiment.

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Because we were all British then! British together.

The Irish separatist movement has done no favours for the Irish or the rest of the British. There is more that unites us than divides us.

Come back to the fold, let us have a roving parliament that spends five years in London, five in Dublin, five in Cardiff and five in Edinburgh in turn. Let us revive the Commonwealth, denounce the princes and prelates of continental Europe and stand together, British one and all, prosperous, fair and strong!

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Fcuk reviving the Commonwealth lets get amongst it and revive the Empire.